On 2019-01-05 13:19:20 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > > On 12/12/2018 05:31, Robert Haas wrote: > > > Most of the features I've been involved in removing have been > > > deprecated for 5+ years. The first release where this one was > > > deprecated was only 2 years ago. So it feels dramatically faster to > > > me than what I think we have typically done. > > > > I was just looking this up as well, and I find it too fast. The > > nonexclusive backups were introduced in 9.6. So I'd say that we could > > remove the exclusive ones when 9.5 goes EOL. (That would mean this > > patch could be submitted for PostgreSQL 13, since 9.5 will go out of > > support around the time PG13 would be released.) > > I don't agree with either the notion that we have to wait 5 years in > this case or that we've only had a good alternative to the exclusive > backup mode since 9.5 as we've had pg_basebackup since 9.1.
I don't agree with a general 5 year deprecation window either. But it seems pretty clear that there's no majority for removing exclusive backups in v12. I think it'd be good to make the warning about its impending death more explicit, but otherwise mark this CF entry either as rejected or returned with feedback. Greetings, Andres Freund
